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- That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the…
- A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work…
- I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both…
- Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected…
- All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings.…
- The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
- The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems…
- The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered…
- When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total…
- I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what…
- It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle